1896-1944
Marion Harris started out as a
Vaudeville singer in the Midwest in the early 1910's. By 1917 she was
recording music and performing on Broadway. She is by many
considered one of the first women to sing blues and jazz songs
written by African-American songwriters. She continued to perform on
stage throughout the 1920's and began acting and singing in films.
In the mid-thirties Marion Harris moved to England where she had
performed at London's Cafe de Paris but her home was destroyed in a
Nazi rocket attack and moved back to the states. She died tragically
from burns after falling asleep in bed with a lit cigarette in April
of 1944.
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